Quick Definition
βοηθός, οῦ, ὁ, ἡ n.m. a helper
Strong's Definition
from 995 and theo (to run); a succorer
KJV Usage: helper
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βοηθός, -dv, helping, (νῆες, Hat. 5, 97; στήριγμα, Tob. vili. 6); mostly as subst. [so fr. Hdt. down] a helper: Heb. xiii. 6 (of God, fr. Ps. exvii. (exviii.) 7, as often in Sept.).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βοηθός boēthos 1x
a helper, Heb. 13:6*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βοηθός, -ον (v.s. βοηθέω),
[in LXX chiefly for עזר ;]
(poët. -όος), hasting to the war-cry (Hom.).
helping, auxiliary; as subst. (Hdt.), a helper: He 13:6 (LXX).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βοηθός. The word is very frequent in the ostraca for the ‘‘ assistants” of the πράκτορες or “ tax-gatherers,” see Wilcken Ostr, i. p. 618, and for a similar use in the papyri the editors’ note to P Fay 34% (A.D. 161) βοηθοῖς γεωργῶν κώμης ἸΠολυδευκείας, where they translate ‘assistants in connexion with taxes upon cultivators at the village of Polydeucia.” For a descriptien of the Praefect as 6 τοῦ νομοῦ βοηθός, “*helper of the district,”’ see P Giss I. 46" (time of Hadrian) ἀξιοῦμέν σε τὸν τοῦ νομοῦ βοηθὸν διακοῦσαι ἡμῶν, and cf. P Oxy IIT. 488535 (ii/iii_ Α.1».) προσφεύγω σοι τῶι κυρίῳ καὶ πάντων βοηθῷ. For the word in its widest connotation it is sufficient to cite P Oxy IV. 743°° (B.C. 2) εἰ καὶ πρ]ὸς ἄλλους εἶχον πρᾶγμα, βοηθὸν αὐτοῦ γ[ε]νέσθαι διὰ ἣν ἔχομε(ν) πρὸς ἑατοὺς φιλίαν, ‘‘for although I (?) have had trouble with others you must assist him for the sake of our friendship” (Edd.), and P Lond 4108 (c. a.v. 346) (= IL. p. 298) pera τὸν θεὸν οὐδίναν (1. οὐδένα) ἔχομεν ἡμῆς βοηθόν, “after (i.e. except) God, we have none to help us” (Ε4.) ; also from 1i/B.C., P Leid E*6 δεόμεθά σου μεθ᾽ ἱκετείας, καθότι οὐ διαλείπις ἡμῶν ἀντιλαμβανόμενος, καὶ ἐν τούτοις βοιηθὸν γενόμενον προσκαλέσασθαι κτλ. βοηθέω αα Jin.)
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βοηθός (boēthos) — a helper. Included with: βοηθ-όος, Doric dialect βοᾱ-, ον, (βοή, θέω, compare βοη-δρόμος) hasting to the cry for help or the call to arms, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; β. ἅρμα a chariot hasting to the battle, [Refs]
II. aiding, helping, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:— substantive, helper, probably [Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—in Prose βοηθός, όν, assisting, auxiliary, νῆες [Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently as substantive, assistant, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ στρατηγοῦ [Refs 3rd c.AD+]